FORMER choirboy signing sensation Aled Jones has hit out at child stars who rebel against their fame.

FORMER choirboy signing sensation Aled Jones has hit out at child stars who rebel against their fame.

As television shows such as Fame Academy and Pop Idol spawn a new generation of stars, Jones said he couldn't understand why youngsters opt for excessive life-styles as soon as they achieve fame.

Fellow Welsh child star Charlotte Church, dubbed voice of an angel, has recently been accused of going off the rails after she was pictured smoking and out on the tiles with Cardiff "bad boy" boyfriend Steven Johnson.

Singer Jones, now also a television presenter, told The Big Issue Cymru, "It's an easy job and a privilege to do. I don't understand what there is to rebel against.

"You get flown all over the world first class, people running around after you doing whatever you want - why have a tantrum?"

Jones found fame and fortune as a choir boy after singing the theme tune to The Snowman, Walking In The Air. In his eight-year career as a child star he sold more than six million records.

Now a father of one, Jones said part of the reason he had been able to resist the temptations of success was because of his parents.

"My mum and dad never forced me to do anything - I'd always choose, so if I didn't want to do a show then that was fine. The only thing they ever made me do was go back to school Monday to Friday."

His attack on child stars aside, Jones also gives an insight into the role religion plays in his life and Songs Of Praise, the long-running BBC religious programme he describes as the "biggest karaoke in the world."

"I'm not an evangelist of the 'let's swing from the chandeliers and try to sell God' type. But I try to live a good life and be honest, not preachy.

"You notice it [Christianity] more when there's a war or a death like Princess Diana. People are still Christians but they don't necessarily go to church - I don't go to church every week.

"And churches are having to change with the times. I go to a church in Covent Garden where the minister tells filthy jokes. It keeps you real."